ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: EN.NU.NUNUZ.ZI.AN.ŠEŠ.KI
Values: zirru_x

Letter from Aba-indasa to Šulgi about his neglect (c.3.1.21), line c3121.22

ĝiš-gi	izi	ib<sub>2</sub>-gu<sub>7</sub>	id<sub>2</sub>	i<sub>3</sub>-tuku-tuku
ĝiš-gi	izi	gu₇	id₂	tuku
reedbed	fire	to eat	watercourse	to have

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Paragraph t3121.p6 (line(s) 20-23) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

Dogs devour corpses, lifting their chests. When dragons kill, what is left from their mouths is put aside. Fire consumes reedbeds even though they have waterways. Utu, who eats butter, who eats cream, nevertheless touches the table of the poor. { (1 ms. adds:) Grant me my life and hold my hands! I am a son of a widow, and I have no one to take care of me. }

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary